Alaska Airlines in April 2024

78.7%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In April 2024, Alaska Airlines (AS) reported 19,430 scheduled domestic flights. 78.7% arrived on time, 0.6% were cancelled and 0.2% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 80.2% on time and 0.7% cancelled that month, so the carrier was 1.5 points below the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 26%.

On time 78.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.6%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Alaska Airlines in April 2024.

April 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	AS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All carriers, Apr 2024
Arrived on time	78.7%	—	78.5%	80.2%
Departed on time	79.8%	—	79.0%	80.5%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.2%	0.7%
Average arrival delay	3.4 min	—	2.9 min	5.4 min
Scheduled flights a day	648	—	826	19,406
Scheduled flights	19,430	—	301,435	582,185

85 airports and 330 routes had AS flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

Airport	Departures	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SEA Seattle	6,195	76.1%	5.0 min	0.3%
PDX Portland	1,266	81.8%	3.8 min	0.4%
ANC Anchorage	1,092	83.7%	-1.8 min	1.6%
SFO San Francisco	801	71.2%	9.6 min	0.2%
SAN San Diego	800	77.4%	6.3 min	0.4%
LAX Los Angeles	753	82.1%	1.7 min	0.0%
PHX Phoenix	458	79.3%	4.2 min	0.4%
LAS Las Vegas	452	77.9%	5.4 min	0.0%
HNL Honolulu	351	79.8%	2.8 min	0.3%
JNU Juneau	345	87.2%	-6.1 min	1.7%
JFK New York	329	78.1%	2.4 min	0.6%
SNA Santa Ana	317	86.4%	1.0 min	0.3%
EWR Newark	279	74.9%	2.4 min	0.4%
ORD Chicago	258	79.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
AUS Austin	240	78.3%	7.3 min	0.8%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of AS flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	All carriers, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	30.9%	33.6%	65,953
Late-arriving aircraft	39.4%	41.0%	84,174
National Aviation System	25.9%	20.0%	55,325
Extreme weather	2.9%	5.1%	6,239
Security	0.9%	0.2%	1,845

213,536 delay minutes on 4,001 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

What share of Alaska Airlines flights were on time in April 2024?

78.7% of 19,430 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 80.2% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Alaska Airlines · methodology · corrections.